Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report – Next Steps for RE

Welcome to this REC Member Survey

Your responses will help us to better understand your perspectives about this significant moment for RE in England

Section 1: Your Details

Name

Contact Email

Name of RE Council Member Organisation

Are you answering for yourself in professional capacity, or to represent the views of your REC Member Organisation?

Professional Capacity

Representing views of REC Member Organisation

Both

Section 2: Your views on the CAAR Report’s recommendations for RE

Do you agree with the recommendations that the Department for Education should:

All questions are on a Likert scale of: Strongly Agree, Agree, Neither Agree nor Disagree, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree.

Add RE to the national curriculum in due course, if a consensus can be reached between RE stakeholders?

Ensure the proposed RE programme of study is built on the REC's National Content Standard.

Review the non-statutory guidance for RE; Religious Education in English Schools (2010), to establish whether beneficial changes can be made for RE in the short-term, that do not pre-empt other recommendations?

If a broad consensus is reached, conduct a formal DfE consultation on a draft RE Programme of Study?

If a broad consensus is reached, conduct a formal DfE consultation on, the removal of statutory RE in school sixth forms?

Section 3: Expansion Questions

Please take this opportunity to explore these topics more fully

What do you see are the potential challenges and opportunities for the recommendation to add RE to the National Curriculum?

If the RE Council’s National Content Standard for RE in England is the starting point, how would you like to see this built on during the development of an RE national curriculum?

How do you view these proposals in relation to their potential impact on schools of a religious character and their right to determine their RE provision?

What are views on the removal of statutory RE in school sixth forms?

What are your thoughts about the proposal to amend the progress 8 measure and include RE in the Humanities slot?

What is your perspective on the impact on ASCs and the ongoing role of SACREs?

Are they any other topics you feel are important to discuss and raise at this stage?

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